Cash-receptacle for mechanical cashiers.



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CASH REGEPTACLE FOB MECHANICAL CASHIERS.

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ISAAC S. DEMENT, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER COMPANY, A COR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CASH-RECEPTACLE FOR MECHANICAL CASHIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,619, dated October 21, 1902.

Application filed. October 3, 1901. Serial No. 77,464. (No model.)

To aZl wlwm it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC S. DE'MENT, acitizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county ofEssex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Receptacles for Mechanical Cashiers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in IQ cash-receptacles for mechanical cashiers, and

relates particularly to cash-receptacles comprising pockets on a rotatable or otherwise movable carrier, these pockets being adapted to receive coins which are pushed into or I 5 ejected from same, as required. For reception or delivery of the coins these receptacles are moved so as to bring a pocket opposite an opening, which may be a charging-opening or a discharging-opening or may serve both for charging and discharging. I have found it desirable for the sake of compactness and for other reasons to make the receptacles in'such manner that the coins lie therein in inclined or oblique position and extend diagonally across the pockets, which are formed with corners or ledges to properly support them. When a coin is ejected from the pocket or receptacle, it is essential that it should lie directly opposite the discharge-slot and in the plane of said slot, and to prevent the coin from tipping or dropping out of the properplane and position I provide the pockets with flanges, ribs, or guides extending adjacent to the center of the pocket on each side, so as to embrace, support, and guide the coin. The

pockets are formed of separate elements attached to a wheel or carrier-disk, each pocket being preferably formed of two such elements, one on each side, and the guiding-flanges referred to are formed as part of such elements.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a partly-broken side elevation of a cash-wheel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and Fig. 3 is an axialsection, of

the cash-wheel. Fig. 4 shows one of the separate pocket elements.

The cash-wheel comprises a central wheel or carrier formed of two disks 1 1, attached together and mounted on a sleeve 2 on the shaft 2. To these two disks 1 1 are secured the two series of pocket elements 3 3, one of which is shown detached in Fig. 4', each pocket element having a shank 3 for attachment to the disk 1 or 1, and side walls, forming a boxlike chamber, open along one corner. When the pocket elements are assembled, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a series of coin-receiving pockets are formed by diagonally opposite pocket elements, asshown in Fig. 2, the upper'part of the coin enteringa given left-hand 6o receptacle and the lower part entering the next lower right-hand receptacle, so that the coin lies obliquely, with its central portion guided between the inner corner edges or flanges 3 3 of the pocket elements. The outer portions of the disks 1 1 are separated somewhat, so as to permit of the passage between them of ejector levers or devices, and the pocket elements on the two sides are similarly separated.

By means of the inturned flanges or guides 3 3 at the adjacent corner of the diagonallylocated pocket elements constituting a coin-. receiving pocket the coins are held in proper plane and position,- so as to be struck squarely by the ejector means and to pass without dan- 7 ger of catching into the discharge slots or openings.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a cash-receptacle for mechanical cashiers,a coin-receiving pocket formed with guide devices extending adjacent. to the center of the pocket on each side to engage and support the coin in proper plane and position.

2. In a cash-receptacle for mechanical cashiers, a coin receiving pocket formed with flanges extending adjacent to the center of the pocket on each side to engage and support the coin, substantially as and forthepurpose set forth.

3. In a cash-receptacle for mechanical cashiers, a coin-receiving pocket comprising two box-shaped pocket elements, located diagonally with reference to each other and having their adjacent corners open to ad mit and guide the coin.

4. A cash-wheel for the purpose described,

having central disk portions and pocket elements being formed with guide-flanges exments attached thereto and cooperating in tending adjacent to the center of the pocket pairs to form coin-receiving pockets. on each side for the purpose described.

5. A cash-wheel for mechanical cashiers, ISAAC S. DEMENT. 5 having two central disk portions, pocket ele- Witnesses:

ments attached to the disk portions and ar- WM. A. COURTLAND,

ranged in separated series said pocket ele- C. N. FAIRCHILD. 

